How To Choose The Best Sunglasses For You

Paris Hilton Sunglasses

There are lots of reasons to tog ourselves out with a great pair of sunglasses - we might not be disguising our faces from the flash of the paparazzi camera like many stars today - but they are a great item to accessorize with. They can range from a few pounds to hundreds, they add style to an ordinary outfit, can be matched with other accessories and most importantly provide us with UV protection against those dangerous sun rays which can cause long term damage to our eyes.

Style Tips For Sunglasses This Season

  • For the last few seasons sunglasses have been huge - talk about supersize. But from the catwalks at the end of the last season designers have been inspired to create more refined styles and glasses this season will be much smaller and more funky in style.
  • Look out for styles like Wayfarers or cats-eye style frames - definitely retro and which can be dressed with high-waisted bikinis.
  • Frames are much more colourful - coloured sunglasses can be matched up with your outfit, swimwear or accessories.
  • Although not everyone can afford a designer handbag which may cost thousands of pounds - a pair of  designer sunglasses can be available for £100+ which makes them a great fashion statement without parting with too much of your hard earned cash.
Fendi Designer Sunglasses

How To Choose A Pair of Sunglasses

  • Most importantly you should make sure your sunglasses, as well as looking great, provide protection against ultraviolet radiation. To protect your eyes you should look for glasses that block 99% to 100% of UV light.
  • Different coloured tints offer different effects - grey lenses reduce brightness but don't distort colours, yellow lenses reduce haziness from blue light so sharpen up your view, rose coloured lenses are great for water sports as they provide great contrast against green and blue backgrounds and brown/amber lenses reduce glare but can distort other colours. Of course, you need to take into consideration whether you really think you will suit glasses with yellow or pink lenses as well.
  • Mirrored sunglasses are great - particularly if you really want to hide behind your glasses - but beware of scratches. As the mirror finish is applied last it's pretty easy to scratch these types of glasses.
  • When choosing glasses consider what you will be most likely to use them for the majority of the time - it could be driving, sports, or simply posing on the beach. All of these different activities might require a different pair or colour of sunglasses.
  • Remember that sunglasses don't have to be expensive to effectively protect your eyes against the sun (in the UK remember to look out for the CE mark which denotes that the sunglasses fulful all EU quality regulations). This means that you can build up a collection of sunglasses which suit every occasion.